Through Streets Broad and Narrow

by Gabriel Fielding

Overview

Through Streets Broad and Narrow re-introduces John Blaydon, emotionally troubled protagonist of Fielding's acclaimed coming-of-age novel, In the Time of Greenbloom.

John Blaydon, now eighteen and with exciting opportunities ahead of him, travels to Dublin to undertake a medical degree. Through a series of evocative, touching and amusing episodes we learn about John's journey to adulthood and respectable career, exploring along the way the heartaches and complex dilemmas which trouble this sensitive and talented young man.

Through Streets Broad and Narrow, first published in 1960, is a finely written novel which can be enjoyed by itself or as a continuation of In the Time of Greenbloom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781448214174
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	03/27/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Gabriel Fielding is the pseudonym of Alan Gabriel Barnsley, born in Hexham, Northumberland , in 1916.The son of an Anglican Clergyman and descendent of Henry Fielding on his mother's side. “I remember a terrible separation when I was sent away at the age of eight, to a snob, preparatory school in the south of England, where everything and everyone, from the masters to the hens, seemed hostile. I think this, in a sense, was the beginning of the pain, out of which I write”. Fielding studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin until 1939; failing to qualify there, he finished at St George's Hospital London. After serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War II he started a general medical practice and worked part time for Her Majesty's Prison, Maidstone, Kent until 1966.”Medicine, to me, was the sentence I had to fulfill to be free to write”. He came to America in 1966 as author-in-residence at Washington State University. Fielding remained there as a Professor of English and Creative Writing until his retirement in 1981. His works include: The Frog Prince and Other Poems(1952), Brotherly Love (1954), Twenty –Eight Poems(1955), In the Time of Greenbloom (1956), Eight Days(1958), Through Streets Broad and Narrow (1961), The Birthday King ( 1963) Gentlemen in their Season(1966), New Queens for Old ( 1972), Pretty Doll Houses(1972) and The Women of Guinea Lane( 1986).

Awards include St Thomas More Gold Medal 1963, W.H. Smith Award in 1964, Honorary Doctorate of Literature, Gonzaga University 1966, Washington State Governor's Writer Award 1972, and Distinguished Professor W.S.U. 1981.
Gabriel Fielding is the pseudonym of Alan Gabriel Barnsley, born in Hexham, Northumberland , in 1916.The son of an Anglican Clergyman and descendent of Henry Fielding on his mother's side. “I remember a terrible separation when I was sent away at the age of eight, to a snob, preparatory school in the south of England, where everything and everyone, from the masters to the hens, seemed hostile. I think this, in a sense, was the beginning of the pain, out of which I write”. Fielding studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin until 1939; failing to qualify there, he finished at St George's Hospital London. After serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War II he started a general medical practice and worked part time for Her Majesty's Prison, Maidstone, Kent until 1966.”Medicine, to me, was the sentence I had to fulfill to be free to write”. He came to America in 1966 as author-in-residence at Washington State University. Fielding remained there as a Professor of English and Creative Writing until his retirement in 1981. His works include: The Frog Prince and Other Poems(1952), Brotherly Love (1954), Twenty –Eight Poems(1955), In the Time of Greenbloom (1956), Eight Days(1958), Through Streets Broad and Narrow (1961), The Birthday King ( 1963) Gentlemen in their Season(1966), New Queens for Old ( 1972), Pretty Doll Houses(1972) and The Women of Guinea Lane( 1986).

Awards include St Thomas More Gold Medal 1963, W.H. Smith Award in 1964, Honorary Doctorate of Literature, Gonzaga University 1966, Washington State Governor's Writer Award 1972, and Distinguished Professor W.S.U. 1981.

"It is a matter for grave doubt that Mr. Fielding could write anything from a postcard to a lexicon without perception and grace and brilliance"-Dorothy Parker

Table of Contents

1. The Fair City
2. The Gentlemen
3. The Paper
4. The Second Wedding
5. Term
6. La Débâcle